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invite you to listen to us on great radio stations
across the region on the Radio Oklahoma Network
weekdays- if you missed this morning's Farm News - or
you are in an area where you can't hear it- click
here for this morning's Farm news
from Ron Hays on RON.
Let's Check the
Markets!
Today's
First Look:
Ron
on RON Markets as heard on K101
mornings
with cash and futures reviewed- includes where the Cash
Cattle market stands, the latest Feeder Cattle Markets
Etc.
Okla
Cash Grain:
Daily
Oklahoma Cash Grain Prices- as reported
by the Oklahoma Dept. of Agriculture.
Canola
Prices:
Current
cash price for Canola is $13.21 per bushel at the Northern
Ag elevator in Yukon.
2012
New Crop contracts for Canola are now available at
$13.12 per bushel- delivered to local
participating elevators that are working with PCOM.
Futures
Wrap:
Our
Daily Market Wrapup from the Radio
Oklahoma Network with Ed Richards and Tom Leffler-
analyzing the Futures Markets from the previous Day.
KCBT
Recap:
Previous Day's Wheat Market Recap-Two
Pager from the Kansas City Board of Trade looks at all
three U.S. Wheat Futures Exchanges with extra info on
Hard Red Winter Wheat and the why of that day's
market.
Feeder
Cattle Recap:
The
National Daily Feeder & Stocker
Cattle Summary- as prepared by USDA.
Slaughter
Cattle Recap:
The
National Daily Slaughter Cattle
Summary- as prepared by the USDA.
TCFA
Feedlot Recap:
Finally,
here is the Daily Volume and Price Summary from
the Texas Cattle Feeders Association.
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Oklahoma's
Latest Farm and Ranch News
Your
Update from Ron Hays of RON
Thursday,
May 3,
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Howdy
Neighbors!
Here is your daily Oklahoma farm and ranch
news update.
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Featured
Story:
Producers
and Crop Specialists Predict Larger Than Average
Hard Red Winter Wheat
Harvest
It's
not in the bin yet, but Oklahoma's hard red winter
wheat crop is shaping up well after the last
couple of dismal years. Attendees at this year's
Oklahoma Grain and Feed Association meeting were
cautiously optimistic that the 2012 crop will be
more than double the totals from 2011. They're
predicting 156 million bushels will be harvested
off of a little more than 4 million acres. Last
year, producers harvested just 70.4 million
bushels on three million acres as drought
devastated yield and output.
OSU
Extension Agronomist Mark Gregory
says the crop in the south and
south-central part of the state is "scary
good" at this point with a yield per acre that
could easily reach 38 bushels. He says he wouldn't
be surprised to see combines in the field this
weekend in a few scattered fields in the southwest
close to the Red River.
Click here to hear more from
Mark.
In
the Panhandle, OSU's Rick
Kochenower says there WILL be a harvest
this year despite the fact that a big portion of
Texas County is still experiencing a drought. He
says irrigated acres are the best they've been in
six to eight years and may yield 100 bushels to
the acre. To hear more of what Rick has to say
on how the crop is faring in the Panhandle, click
here. Rick also updates us
on grain sorghum and corn trials he has planted
across the state and we discuss the likely
prospect of many acres going double crop this
season.
Wheat
Specialist Dr. Jeff Edwards
thinks the crop will be a little
smaller than what others are
predicting, but not by much. He says a late April
blast of heat has exacted a small toll, but it is
enough to be noticeable. He thinks 150
million bushels is closer to the correct figure.
He says new varieties are showing a lot of
promise and he thinks the OSU bred variety
Gallagher will shine this year. You can hear more from Jeff by
clicking here.
Barring
weather difficulties which could always crop up,
producers expect the major part of the 2012
harvest in Oklahoma to be in the bin by the middle
of June.
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Yields
Come Down on Day Two of Kansas Wheat Crop Tour as
Drought and Disease Stress is
Seen
The
55th Annual Hard Winter Wheat Evaluation Tour
sponsored by the Wheat Quality Council departed on
Wednesday, May 2 for the second day of
observations of wheat production estimates in the
state of Kansas and into the northern parts of
Oklahoma.
The final estimate for day 2
of the Kansas Wheat Crop tour was 43.7 bushels per
acre, based off of 286 stops throughout the day.
This compares to last year's day two estimate of
33.4 bushels per acre, based off of 264 stops.
After two days of observations by tour
participants, the average now stands at 48.5
bushels per acre, based on 566 total stops. This
number is up 11.8 from last year's 2-day estimate
of 36.7.
Overall the Kansas wheat crop
appears to be in good shape, with some
participants on the tour expecting a
higher-than-average wheat crop. Wheat in the
western third of the state looks good from Colby,
KS down to Garden City, KS, but starts looking dry
and suffering from drought stress eastward from
that area. After crossing through Hoisington, KS,
Great Bend, KS, and Medicine Lodge, KS in the
south, it appears the crop starts looking better
east of those geographical markers after yesterday
and today's observations, according to
participants. It was also noted in yesterday and
today's reports that farmers are using fungicide
more this year in attempts to ward off disease
such as stripe rust. Crop dusters were evident on
day one and two of the tour.
Click here for our in depth report of
day two- courtesy of Deb
Bollman of the Kansas City Board of
Trade- we also have some audio observations from
Debbie Wedel of the Oklahoma
Wheat Commission that is traveling on the Kansas
Tour. The wrapup of the tour comes today-
and a final estimate of the Kansas Wheat Crop will
be made by the scouts at the Kansas City Board of
Trade this afternoon.
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Brandon
Baumgarten Elected Oklahoma State FFA President-
And the List of the State Officer Team
Brandon
Baumgarten of the Oilton FFA Chapter will
lead the 2012-2013 Oklahoma FFA State Officer
Team, as he was elected by the delegates to serve
as State FFA President for the coming year.
Baumgarten has served over the last twelve months
as the State Secretary of the Oklahoma FFA, while
attending Oklahoma State University as a
Freshman.
The
rest of the State Officer team that will serve the
23,000 plus members of the Oklahoma FFA in the
coming year include:
State Secretary-
Alex Cash, Owasso
FFA
State Reporter- Kaylen
Baker, Yukon FFA
Northeast
District VP- Kyle Hilbert, Depew
FFA
Northwest District VP-
Barrett Powell, Ringwood
FFA
Central District VP- Annie
Jo Gilbert, Choctaw
FFA
Southeast District VP-
Steven Vekony,
Byng
Southwest District VP-
Kelsie Williams, Hollis
Click
here to read more of Brandon's resume as well as
the resumes of each of the successful candidates
for the 2012-2013 State Officer
team.
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Stars
Over Oklahoma at State FFA Convention- Dylan
Runyan Is Star Farmer, Steele Rasmusson Star
Agribusinessman and Garrett Sharp Star in Ag
Placement
Dyson
Runyan's entrepreneurial spirit and
devotion to show pigs and agriculture has led to
his selection for one of Oklahoma FFA's highest
honors: the 2012 State Star in Agricultural
Production. His supervised agricultural experience
project was rated the best agricultural production
program among the 727 FFA members who received the
State FFA Degree during the 86th State FFA
Convention on May 2. Dyson is from Madill and you
can read more about his supervised occupational
Program and see the video that was shown on stage-
produced by yours truly- right after his name was
called as the Star Farmer of Oklahoma-just click here for our Dyson Runyan
story.
Haworth
FFA member Steele Rasmusson knows
the hard work and dedication of running a
successful hay bailing operation and getting crops
to prosper in a variety of soil types. Through his
first-hand experience on his family farm,
Rasmusson's passion and dedication to the hay
bailing industry led to his selection as the 2012
State Star in Agribusiness recipient. Read more
about Steele's program as well as the chance to
see our video of his program shown on Wednesday
afternoon at the 86th annual convention of the
Oklahoma FFA- just click here for our Steele
Rasmusson story.
Finally,
our third Star over Oklahoma FFA is from Pioneer
High School- but he travels a few miles daily to
Waukomis to participate in Ag Ed and FFA- your
2012 Oklahoma FFA Star in Ag Placement- Garrett
Sharp! When Sharp's grandfather passed away,
the 18-year- old stepped up to fulfill the role of
active member and leader for his Oklahoma
Centennial Farm, JK Farms. Click here to read more of his
inspiring story and a chance to see our video
highlighting his efforts from the Stars Over
Oklahoma pageant as Garrett was named the Star in
Ag Placement in the Oklahoma FFA Association.
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Upstream
Flood Control Program Elimination Puts Thousands
of Lives at Risk
Citizens
throughout Oklahoma and other states will be put
at risk if a proposal to eliminate all funding for
the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
(NRCS) upstream flood control program is allowed
to stand as part of the agriculture appropriations
bill currently being considered in the United
States Senate according to Joe
Parker, President of the Oklahoma
Association of Conservation Districts
(OACD).
"It's hard to believe that the U.S.
Senate Appropriations Committee would put
thousands of Americans at risk by eliminating all
funding for the upstream flood control program but
that's just what they did," Parker said. "It's
amazing that some Senators would be so
irresponsible as to take this kind of
action."
According to Parker, when the
Senate Appropriations Committee reported the 2013
Agriculture Appropriations bill to the full Senate
in late April, it contained language that would
eliminate all funding for repair and
rehabilitation of America's over 11,000 upstream
flood control dams. With over 2,100 dams in
Oklahoma, 1,000 of which will be past their design
life in the next five years, Parker said this move
is especially troubling for the Sooner
State.
Read more about how eliminating this
program will threaten Oklahoma by clicking
here.
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Educational
Forum on Sardis Lake Water Rights Lawsuit Set For
Atoka
Southeastern
Oklahoma residents will have an opportunity to
learn about the pending Sardis Lake lawsuit at an
educational town hall forum, May 17, in Atoka.
Hosted by the Oklahoma Farm
Bureau Legal Foundation, the
Oklahoma Cattlemen's Association
and American Farmers &
Ranchers, the meeting is intended to
provide general background information on the
lawsuit. The event is not a political forum but
instead an education forum organized to explain
the lawsuit's legal process and how the filing
will impact citizens' water rights. Also,
representatives from the Attorney General's office
and the Oklahoma Water Resources Board will be
available to answer questions.
The May 17,
meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. at the Atoka
County Farm Bureau Office, 309 W. Liberty Rd.,
Atoka. For more information on the Sardis Lake
forum, please contact Oklahoma Farm Bureau
Director of Public Policy Kinsey Money at (405)
523-2539.
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On
the Beef Buzz: Death Tax Concerns Mount as
2013 Draws Closer
With
each passing day, the concern about a higher
estate tax come the first of January of next year
increases. In December 2010, Congress passed
temporary estate tax relief effective through
December 31, 2012. For now, estates worth more
than $5 million per individual, $10 million per
couple are taxed at a rate of 35 percent. The
temporary estate tax relief package also contains
a spousal transfer, reinstated stepped-up basis
and indexes the estate tax exemption for
inflation.
Unless Congress acts to provide
permanent relief, the estate tax will revert back
to staggering pre-2001 levels where estates worth
more than $1 million will be taxed at a rate of 55
percent. The National Cattlemen's Beef Association
and other farm and ranch groups have expressed
their worries to members of Congress, but with
most lawmakers worried about reelection, there
seems to be little chance of getting an estate tax
fix until the eleventh hour- likely after the
November general elections during the so called
"lame duck session."
We talk about the
problem and the strategy to address this with
lobbyist Colin Woodall of the
National Cattlemen's Beef Association. Woodall is
our guest on today's Beef Buzz. Click here to listen.
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Today
our RON Team Working Multiple Place for
You!
We are going three
directions today to keep you in the know in the
world of agriculture- keeping our home fires
burning during the market day is Ed
Richards, who anchors the great majority
of our markets every day- Ed will be handling all
the hourly updates as well as our noon livestock
"Stocker Feeder" updates as I travel northward.
Ed's reports can be heard across Oklahoma and into
our neighboring states as well on the
Radio Oklahoma Network.
My
assignment today is the 2012 Lahoma Canola
Field Day- the trailers will start
rolling at 9 AM this morning and you can see the
full schedule for today by clicking
here. If you are headed for Lahoma-
please stop by and say howdy- that's always the
highlight of my day to meet and greet those of you
that hear our radio reports, see us on TV via
Skype or read us via this email or on the
internet.
Finally, our new kid on the
block- Jim Apel- will be heading
to a "secret" location later this morning to
chronicle the 2012 National Land and Range
Judging Contest- one of the great
highlights each May that is held in central
Oklahoma. There will be contestants from
about 30 states this year- including a team from
Hawaii looking over and judging the in one of
several categories in this national
competition. Click here for the website
that tells you more about this major event that
draws a thousand or more folks every year into the
Oklahoma City area.
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